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mrobtoday at 10:54 AM1 replyview on HN

If it's part of the OS's standard accessibility framework then it's acceptable. The important point is that applications shouldn't be able to arbitrarily move the mouse in situations when it's unexpected.


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LatencyKillstoday at 11:18 AM

> The important point is that applications shouldn't be able to arbitrarily move the mouse in situations when it's unexpected.

That is quite a different statement from "It should be impossible." What should be impossible is for the OS to prevent this type of usage when it is clearly useful. Beyond accessibility, I use these features to automate testing of native macOS GUI apps.